The summer book club selection is Squirrel Hill by Mark Oppenheimer. The book describes how “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” became the site of the most deadly antisemitic attack on American soil... Read More
Come join members of BZBI for a High Holy Day Journaling Program at the synagogue! We will reflect inward on the past year, and set goals for the new year ahead. Notebooks and writing utensils... Read More
Join BZBI for our Pink Shabbat, a morning service in honor of breast cancer awareness. We will welcome Alona Shaked, an executive and lifestyle coach who shows women how to... Read More
Exploring the Talmud as Philosophy Starting at the beginning of the Talmud, the first chapter of Tractate Berachot, we will try to determine what philosophic questions the authors/editors of the... Read More
Two Philosophic Books of the Bible We will explore two later books of the Bible that consider deep philosophic issues. First the Book of Ecclesiastes (Kohelet) and then the Book... Read More
Judaism is a world unto itself, encompassing rituals, ideas, and thousands of years of history. If you’ve been curious about Jewish learning but didn’t know where to start, this is... Read More
The Brown Club of Greater Philadelphia and BZBI invite you to a free presentation by Adam Teller, Professor of History and Judaic Studies at Brown University. Click here to RSVP for... Read More
Word by word, line by line, page by page, we follow the Zohar, the most precious book of Jewish mystical teachings, as it leads us along its paths of primordial wisdom. By turns... Read More
Opening Night at the Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival with BZBI Saturday, November 12, 7:00 PM @ Weitzman National Museum BZBI's Israel Engagement Committee invites you to the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish... Read More
The fall book club selection is The Survivors by Adam Frankel. A memoir of family, the Holocaust, trauma, and identity, in which Adam Frankel, a former Obama speechwriter, must come... Read More
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